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From: franka@tekcad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Re: IBM rumored to be planning UNIX - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 9-Dec-83 11:58:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  9 11:58:17 1983
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tekcad!franka    Dec  9 08:58:00 1983

>/***** tekcad:net.unix / hlexa!pcl /  1:39 am  Dec  8, 1983*/
>Subject: Re: IBM rumored to be planning UNIX support
>
>Subject: IBM UNIX DECLARATION EXPECTED - (nf)
>
>UNIX IMPLEMENTATION FOR IBM COMPUTERS
>ANTICIPATED, Information Systems News, 11/28,
>p.1.  Industry sources reported that IBM will
>make a major announcement defining its strategy
>for providing UNIX for its mainframe
>processors, and possibly for its PCs.  The
>announcement may come by mid-December.  Some
>sources see the strategy declaration as
>forestalling possible competitive pressure from
>AT&T after Jan 1; others view it as answering
>customers' clamor for UNIX applications.
>Several leading software firms are pursuing
>UNIX development contracts with IBM.
>/* ---------- */

Well, if IBM is using it, there MUST be something wrong with it. Guess it's
time to switch to a new OS.

               				From the truly menacing,
   /- -\       				but usually underestimated,
    <->        				Frank Adrian
               				(tektronix!tekcad!franka)